Prudential Ins. v. Faulkner’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.2d 676 · 1934
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Smith v. Universal Services., Inc. (1972), Herndon v. Seven Bar Flying Service, Inc. (1983)
24 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Roehm v. Horst · United States v. Worley · Ætna Life Insurance v. Phifer · Luckenbach S. S. Co. v. W. R. Grace & Co. · Pease v. . Smith
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne who repudiates his obligation under a contract cannot thereafter exercise an election contained in its provisions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“case of breach without an election (of alternatives), (shall be) in accordance with the alternative that will result in the smallest recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“disregarded by the court in entering judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.